Department stores on Antonsplatz
The department stores on Antonsplatz were two sales halls on the flanks of Antonsplatz in Dresden. Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer provided the designs for the facility, and the court architect Anton Ludwig Blaßmann for the construction of the department stores . The buildings were destroyed in World War II and demolished in 1950.
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Since there was no central place for a market hall, King Friedrich August I approved the construction of two long sales halls with arcades in the style of classicism in 1822 . The department stores were built as opposing counterparts on both sides of Antonsplatz. The complex was built according to plans by Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer and it was the only more extensive urban development of the early Dresden Biedermeier period that was preserved until 1891. On the east side of Antonsplatz, Anton Ludwig Blaßmann built “the upper department stores” in 1826, initially as a single-storey building; In 1828 the counterpart “the lower department stores” was built on the west side of the Antonsplatz. The buildings were later increased so that each department store complex then consisted of three three- story buildings with hipped roofs, each of which was connected to one another by two-story buildings with pitched roofs . The facade of the three-storey central building was 13 axes long. The two three-story side buildings were 9 axes long and 5 axes wide. In the ground floor zone there were arched windows, cornices divided the floors. Doric columns and gable-crowned head buildings adorned the department stores facing Wilsdruffer Thorplatz .
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- ↑ Volker Helas : Architecture in Dresden 1800-1900 , Verlag der Kunst Dresden GmbH, Dresden 1991, ISBN 3-364-00261-4 , p. 194
- ^ Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden - history of its buildings . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1981, ISBN 3-363-00007-3 , p. 363 .